HIJOLE! If the weeks go any faster, I may just start emailing every 2 weeks because I have nothing to talk about! Thank you so much for the great emails, everyone! I’m glad to hear all is going well back at the home front and I am so proud that all of you have been reading as a family!!!! Super, Super Proud! Just keep it up! Kids are just like tortillas, the first ones either fall apart or burn but by the 3rd and 4th.....you can cook them just right. HAha, so there is still hope for the last 2, Mom :)
Looks like a wild day of Valentines cookies Mom and Nae! Glad to see that you’re pumping out the goodies just as fast as ever! Alex, I hope you’re enjoying baseball! That’s super exciting buddy, your gonna tear it up! Chan, Hope your doing well and you already know what my answer will be to your questions! Pull the trigger buddy! Your headed the right direction good luck! :) Just remember who the middleman was and don’t do anything crazy without me there. haha!
Sounds like all is well and I’m so glad that you have all had a great week. President Trayner told me something one time that has stuck with me my whole mission. He said, “Elder Smith, at the beginning of your mission, when you’re in the streets of Laredo, it will feel like the sun will never set. It will sit almost completely still and feel like time is at a complete stop. But in about a year and a half, the time will be like sand running through your fingers, you will try to catch it all but it will run right through until you've got none left."
I still have A TON OF TIME LEFT so don’t get trunky!!! But I can feel it slipping away and it scares me to death. Every week goes faster and faster and I already feel like I’m getting robbed. So if your praying for that...STOP! haha
The mission is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and everyday I am so grateful for it. This last week was another rough week unfortunately. Just a trial of our faith or something, but it’s weird how when you feel like you’re the best missionaries you've ever been, things just go to pot. We have continued to work hard and enjoy ourselves, but we have felt a new sense of urgency. My time is too short here to lose or waste. But I’m still grateful for times like these, they are helping me grow.
So I though I would tell you a quick miracle that did happen to us this week before I "sign off"(Dad quote) haha! We found a new apartment complex and felt really strongly that that’s where God wanted us to be. We started talking to people and went by a couple ‘formers’. We got lead all around this big circle of apartments, and then across this field we saw a family playing outside. So we took off across the field. Haha And families are like rabbits, they all just scurry away when you come at them too fast, and before we knew it, they were all inside. But then we saw a young girl (young 20’s) just walking into her house. We yelled out to her before she could get in. We began to talk and she said, "I’M ACTUALLY A MORMON" haha perfect :) So we started talking and she had just moved into her mom’s house a few weeks back and none of them are members besides her. So we asked if we could meet her mom. The mom came out and just started bawling. She had been praying for someone. It really was a miracle. The bad news is they all got hit with the flu and couldn't come to church... But don’t let that take away from the great story, haha!!!
I love being a missionary. More than anything! Mostly because we see a lot of crazy crap haha :) but the miracles always make up for it. Always.
Thank you for everything family and I pray you all have a great week!
!LES AMO!
